What kind of mods on your trailer?
Seems to me that most of the moderately price trailers are set up for week end stints and not month long excursions. What kind of mods do you folks do to your trailer? Since I had my trailer Ive d...
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RavensFan24 wrote:GordonThree wrote:
Most of my mods:
10. Installed a Wilson Sleek 4G-V inside a cabinet, wired to an external marine mast cell antenna
How's this one working out for you? I've been considering adding one of these to my trailer. I've been looking at the 4G-X though....not sure of the difference between the X and V
It's one of the first mods I did, and I love it. There's very few places it won't pull in 3G or LTE signal, even areas where the phone or hot spot shows no service before being placed in the Sleek.
I think upgrading to a proper antenna helps a lot too. The tiny one that comes with the sleek is designed to minimize interference in a temporary setup, and is not very powerful.
Here's the antenna I'm using:
Wilson Marine Dual Band
This antenna is well made, it has survived getting hit by ice from the RV roof, that same ice shattered a much cheaper WiFi antenna also mounted to the trailer.
The only downside to the Sleek is your phone has to be in the cradle to receive the boost. I had wanted to get a true repeater with indoor and outdoor antenna, but that's outside the budget, and with only a 20ft trailer, I think signal interference could be an issue.
When my main phone is docked in the cradle, I either use a bluetooth headset, or use Skype on my tablet, making calls over the WiFi.
Looks like the X is a newer version and covers more frequency bands, supporting "all carriers", where as the V focused only on the Verizon bands.
